Micron will invest $150B in semiconductor R&D; Verizon is on track to meet its 5G infrastructure deployment goals; and Mandiant and Splunk announced a new partnership.
“If you can stop all breaches Mandiant’s aware of, you’re pretty much stopping all the breaches,” Mandiant CEO Kevin Mandia said during a panel discussion with Splunk CEO Doug
Cohesity released services to fight sophisticated ransomware attacks; Promiso added AIOps-enhanced networking to its platform; and ESG reporting requires more regulation.
From a regulation perspective, the crux of this issue is creating “guidelines and baselines of compatibility” across ESG reporting, according to VMware's ESG VP Nicola Acutt.
Carrier tech executives said more work needs to be done on 5G; Windstream added VMware's SASE to its portfolio; and data center immersion cooling is on the rise.
CEO Börje Ekholm blamed the loss on retaliatory measures resulting from “decisions Sweden took to exclude Chinese vendors in the build-out of 5G networks in Sweden.”
“We're the first vendor to integrate silicon into the device itself to perform not only Ethernet switch function, but those layer 4-7 functionalities," Aruba's John Gray said.
Pica8 raised $20 million in Series C funding; VMware remains a supporter of the O-RAN Alliance; and Telefónica expanded its relationship with Fortinet.
At the heart of the deal are Versa’s Titan SD-WAN and SASE platforms, which Alcatel-Lucent says will help it expand its network portfolio to mid-sized organizations.
“The key differentiator from other supplier RICs is ONF’s open, vendor-neutral framework which is driven by operator use cases,” Deutsche Telekom SVP Alex Jinsung Choi said.
Nokia claims more than 340 private wireless customers today, and that experience highlighted “a clear gap in the market,” Nokia's Stephan Litjens said.
“The company is hemorrhaging money, having lost nearly half a billion dollars during the first half of 2021,” and this IPO is unlikely to change that, GlobalData reports.